The Labour Party has appointed David Axelrod as a strategic adviser on Ed Miliband's 2015 election campaign. Mr Axelrod was a key architect of Barack Obama's victory over John McCain in the 2008 presidential race. He has been recruited to work alongside shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, who is in charge of Labour's general election strategy. Labour will also call on Mr Axelrod's consulting, firm AKVD, in its bid to win power, BBC Newsnight has revealed. After masterminding Mr Obama's election to the White House, Mr Axelrod went on to become a senior adviser to the president. He quit the post in 2011 in order to work on the successful 2012 campaign to re-elect Mr Obama. The strategist has since acted as a media commentator and as a director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago.